Improvement in harness-buckles



J. c. SMITHERI arness-Buckle;

Patented Oct. 26, 1875 N-PETERS, PHOTO-LITHOGRAPKER, WASHINGTON, D C.

UN TED STATES PATENT firemen,

JOSEPH G. SMITHER, OF NIGHOLASVILLE, KENTUCKY.

IMPROVEMENT IN HARNESS-BUCKLES.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 169,200, dated October 26, 1875; application filed May 22, 1875.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it-known that I, J osErH O. SMITHER, of Nicholasville, Jessamine county, Kentucky, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Harness-Buckles, of which the following is a specification:

Figure 1 is a front view of my improved buckle shown as applied toa strap; and Fig. 2 is a vertical longitudinal section of the same, taken through the line w m, Fig.1.

Similar letters of reference indicate correv sponding parts.

The object of this invention is to furnish an improved buckle, designed especially for use upon the hip-straps ofa harness, but which may be used upon other parts of a harness, and for other purposes.

The invention consists in the tapering tube formed upon the upper or forward end of the buckle-frame, and having a recess formed in the rear edge of its outer part to receive the end of the tongue of the buckle, as hereinafter fully described.

A is the frame of the buckle, to the crossbars of which the tongue B and strap 0 are secured in the usual way. Upon the forward end of the buckle-frame A is formed a tube,

a which is tapered to an edge at its upper end, so as to fit closely upon the strap D, which is passed through it, and through which the tongue B is passed. In the lower edge of the outer part of the tube a is formed a recess, ed, to receive the point of the tongue B, as shown in Figs. 1 and 2.

By this construction, when the buckle is apas new and desire to secure by Letters Pat- A tongued harness-buckle, having upon the forward end of its frame A the tube a, tapered to an edge at its upper end, and provided at the lower edge of outer part with recess a, as and for the purpose specified.

JOSEPH 0. SMITHER.

. Witnesses: p

H. O. RODENBAUGH, JOHN 0. PRICE. 

